A new GPS-acoustic method for measuring ocean floor crustal deformation: Application to the Nankai Trough

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Ikuta, Ryoya ^a   Tadokoro, Keiichi ^b   Ando, Masataka ^b   Okuda, Takashi ^b   Sugimoto, Shingo ^b   Takatami, Kazunori ^b   Yada, Kazuyuki ^b   Besana, Glenda M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; BENCHMARKING; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; GEODESY; GPS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PACIFIC PLATE; PHILIPPINE SEA PLATE; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION;

KUMANO BASIN; NANKAI TROUGH; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 42149184067     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JB004875     Document Type: Article

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